When you're in the computer with your hapless mother who tagged along out of boredom and you have fellow customers asking you for advice when they realize you know more than the saleguy after hearing you explain what you're looking at to said non-geeky parental unit.

As for trivial pursuit, people stopped letting me play that a long time ago.

There was this board game called Taboo, where someone would have a word or phrase and 5 common words/phrases that couldn't be used as a clue. A friend of mine and I used to drive friends nuts by using Mercedes Lackey books as our clues.

Then we just switched to Anne McCaffery when that got banned. Can't remember who it was after that. I think we switched to movies when they said no more book series.

When you're at a Harley meeting and feel the need to edit the "Group Riding" pamphlet right then and there, because all of the gramatical and punctuation errors are driving you insane.

How about when you not only want to edit the pamphlet for grammar and punctuation errors, but also for basic errors in proper group riding procedures? Plus a completely incorrect (and impossible under the laws of physics as we know them) explanation of counter-steering. Just for the record, the laws of physic DO still apply to motorcycles, even if grammar and spelling laws didn't seem to apply to this group. :>

It was not Harley group (neither DH nor I have Harleys)-it was a mixed bike club. It was a club we didn't join. We went to the meeting, and their group riding procedures were so bad as to be scary....at least what we could pick out from the mess of a group riding pamphlet they handed out (it was one they made up themselves, not the one from the MSF).

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Lynn

"Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat." Robert A. Heinlein

The older members of the family have banned you from playing Trivial Pursuit, while the younger members offer bribes for answers they don't know.

Oh, yeah. My brother refuses to play TP with me unless he gets to play with the original cards and I play with an newer genus version.

I've one better- senior year of HS, my public speaking teacher would have us play TP when we had free time inbetween speeches. My team always loved me because we always won-even when I answered all the questions alone.

And then one day my teacher brought in the genus version... I didn't do half bad, but we did loose that day.

When your phrase of choice when your BF isn't listening is '...then the Borg came and we were all assimilated'

When you tell non-Star Trek fans jokes like:

Why did the Borg cross the road?It had assimilated the chicken!

And laugh uproariously... and when no one gets it, you explain in great detail. And the next time you tell a Star Trek joke they laugh just to stop you launching into a half hour explanation of why it's funny!

Quote from: Lulupop

...you understand most of the science jokes on The Big Bang Theory and totally understand Sheldon's reaction to Penny's Christmas napkin.

I LOVE that! One of the best episodes! "I have the DNA of Leonard Nimoy?!! I could grow my own Leonard Nimoy?!!"

... and that's another one: when someone mentions a geeky show you love, and you can trot out lines from it without thinking twice.

... when you can tell the Star Trek/Stargate/insert-sci-fi-show-here episode from the first 15 seconds.

Hit post before I remembered to tell T'Mar I have bumped into John Barrowman quit a few times when out. The joys of living in Cardiff.There's also a roving blue box that they park in strange places. Not for the show just for fun.

Awesome!

Is he as devastating in person? Did you see his other half (who is also gorgeous)? Squee!!

-When your son is named for a scifi/fantasy character, your DXH regularly attends cons for the author, and DS has actually the met the author who created the character for whom he is named- your pets all have scientific names (yes, Shroedinger, Einstein, Brunel, and Hawk(ing))- your score higher than your DH (double MS in engineering) on geek and nerd tests- the Magic 8 Ball on your desk at work is labeled "Bayesian Estimator" and you have to explain at least once a week what it means- you save old copies of "Extreme Geek" and "Think Geek" catalogs- you have a variety of flash drives in different styles to suit various occasions